Basle, c.1560, Italian text. View of Buda from an Italian edition of Munster's 'Cosmography'. The text makes no mention of the capture of the city by the Turks in 1541, and a cross still surmounts the church.MUNS0034

London: Thomas Maclean, c.1838. A view looking over the Danube from the ruined castle of Bratislava in Slovakia. Destroyed during the Napoleonic Wars, it was restored from 1957. From George Hering's 'Sketches on the Danube, Hungary and Transylvania', with lithographs by J.B. Pyne.HERI0001

London, 1854. Large and detailed map of the Crimea, with insets showing the Black Sea and the defences of Sevastapol. Wyld takes great pains to point out that this is a new edition, rushed out less than two weeks after the Allies landed at the port of Eupatoria on the west coast. News of the Battle of Alma, 20th September, did not arrive early enough for the battle to be marked.WYLD0007

London, the London Printing and Publishing Company, 1861. The Crimea, decorated with vignette prospects of Sebastopol, Eupatoria, the Banks of the Alma and Balaklava Harbour. When the map was first published the Crimean War was still being fought: on the map is marked the undersea 'Electric Telegraph from Varna', extending to Eupatoria, another base of the Allies.TALL0050